{"id":2408,"date":"2025-06-05T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/?page_id=2408"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:14:46","slug":"scissors-skills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/12-weeks\/fine-motor-skills\/scissors-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Scissors skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Child cannot hold the scissors and does not know what to do<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/08\/Scissor-skills.pdf\">Scissor skills<\/a> (pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Child does not cut on the line<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/08\/Scissor-skills.pdf\">Scissor skills<\/a> (pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Child always has jagged edges to their cutting<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/08\/Scissor-skills.pdf\">Scissor skills<\/a> (pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Child\u2019s approach appears awkward<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/08\/Scissor-skills.pdf\">Scissor skills<\/a> (pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">The scissors do not seem to cut, they just bend the paper<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/08\/Scissor-skills.pdf\">Scissor skills<\/a> (pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<div class=\"nhsuk-action-link\"><a class=\"nhsuk-action-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/12-weeks\/dressing\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"nhsuk-action-link__text\">Next section: Dressing<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2404,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2408\/revisions\/2515"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}